What Is a People? seeks to reclaim "people" as an effective political concept by revisiting its uses and abuses over time. Alain Badiou surveys the idea of a people as a productive force of solidarity and emancipation and as a negative tool of categorization and suppression. Pierre Bourdieu follows with a sociolinguistic analysis of "popular" and its transformation of democracy, beliefs, songs, and even soups into phenomena with outsized importance. Judith Butler calls out those who use freedom of assembly to create an exclusionary "we," while Georges Didi-Huberman addresses the problem of summing up a people with totalizing narratives. Sadri Khiari applies an activist's perspective to the racial hierarchies inherent in ethnic and national categories, and Jacques Rancière comments on the futility of isolating theories of populism when, as these thinkers have shown, the idea of a "people" is too diffuse to support them. By engaging this topic linguistically, ethnically, culturally, and ontologically, the voices in this volume help separate "people" from its fraught associations to pursue more vital formulations.
Together with Democracy in What State? , in which Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, Daniel Bensaid, Wendy Brown, Jean-Luc Nancy, Jacques Rancière, Kristin Ross, and Slavoj Žižek discuss the nature and purpose of democracy today, What Is a People? expands an essential exploration of political action and being in our time.

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These outspoken intellectuals seek to reclaim “people” as an effective political concept by revisiting its uses and abuses over time. Alain Badiou surveys the idea of a people as a productive force of solidarity and emancipation and a negative tool of categorization and suppression. Pierre Bourdieu follows with a sociolinguistic analysis of “popular” and its transformation of democracy, beliefs, songs, and even soups into phenomena with outsized importance. Judith Butler calls out those who use freedom of assembly to create an exclusionary “we.” Georges Didi-Huberman addresses the problem of summing up a people with totalizing narratives. Sadri Khiari applies an activist’s perspective to the racial hierarchies inherent in ethnic and national categories, and Jacques Rancière comments on the futility of isolating theories of populism when, as these thinkers have shown, the idea of a “people” is too diffuse to support them. By engaging this topic linguistically, ethnically, culturally, and ontologically, these scholars help separate “people” from its fraught associations to pursue more vital formulations.
Alain Badiou is René Descartes Chair at the European Graduate School and teaches at the École Normale Superieure and the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris. Judith Butler is the Maxine Eliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley. Georges Didi-Huberman is professor at the Centre d’Histoire et Théorie des Arts at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. Sadri Khiari is a Tunisian activist who has lived in exile in France since 2003 and is active in Indigènes de la République (Movement of the Indigenous of the Republic). Jacques Rancière is professor of philosophy emeritus at the University of Paris VIII. Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) served as chair of sociology at the Collège de France.

What Is a People? seeks to reclaim "people" as an effective political concept by revisiting its uses and abuses over time. Alain Badiou surveys the idea of a people as a productive force of solidarity and emancipation and as a negative tool of categorization and suppression. Pierre Bourdieu follows with a sociolinguistic analysis of "popular" and its transformation of democracy, beliefs, songs, and even soups into phenomena with outsized importance. Judith Butler calls out those who use freedom of assembly to create an exclusionary "we," while Georges Didi-Huberman addresses the problem of summing up a people with totalizing narratives. Sadri Khiari applies an activist's perspective to the racial hierarchies inherent in ethnic and national categories, and Jacques Rancière comments on the futility of isolating theories of populism when, as these thinkers have shown, the idea of a "people" is too diffuse to support them. By engaging this topic linguistically, ethnically, culturally, and ontologically, the voices in this volume help separate "people" from its fraught associations to pursue more vital formulations.Together with Democracy in What State?, in which Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, Daniel Bensaid, Wendy Brown, Jean-Luc Nancy, Jacques Rancière, Kristin Ross, and Slavoj #x8E;i#x9E;ek discuss the nature and purpose of democracy today, What Is a People? expands an essential exploration of political action and being in our time

These outspoken intellectuals seek to reclaim "people" as an effective political concept by revisiting its uses and abuses over time. Alain Badiou surveys the idea of a people as a productive force of solidarity and emancipation and a negative tool of categorization and suppression. Pierre Bourdieu follows with a sociolinguistic analysis of "popular" and its transformation of democracy, beliefs, songs, and even soups into phenomena with outsized importance. Judith Butler calls out those who use freedom of assembly to create an exclusionary "we." Georges Didi-Huberman addresses the problem of summing up a people with totalizing narratives. Sadri Khiari applies an activist's perspective to the racial hierarchies inherent in ethnic and national categories, and Jacques RanciEre comments on the futility of isolating theories of populism when, as these thinkers have shown, the idea of a "people" is too diffuse to support them. By engaging this topic linguistically, ethnically, culturally, and ontologically, these scholars help separate "people" from its fraught associations to pursue more vital formulations

"L'enfant est l'interprète du peuple. Que dis-je ? Il est le peuple même, dans sa vérité native, avant qu'il ne soit déformé, le peuple sans vulgarité, sans rudesse, sans envie, n'inspirant ni défiance ni répulsion". Les termes de Michelet peuvent faire sourire, mais quand on parle de populaire (langage) ou de populiste (discours), n'y a-t-il pas là une sorte de défiance et de répulsion ? Le projet de ce livre est né d'une inquiétude, celle de voir le mot peuple rejoindre sans espoir de retour le groupe des mots tels que république ou laïcité, dont le sens a évolué pour servir au maintien de l'ordre. Malgré leur diversité, les textes ici réunis ont en commun de montrer ce que peuple garde de solidement ancré du côté de l'émancipation

Table of Contents 6
Preface 8
Introduction: This People Which Is Not One, by Bruno Bosteels 12
1. Twenty-Four Notes on the Uses of the Word “People”, by Alain Badiou 32
2. You Said “Popular”?, by Pierre Bourdieu 43
3. “We, the People”: Thoughts on Freedom of Assembly, by Judith Butler 60
4. To Render Sensible, by Georges Didi-Huberman 76
5. The People and the Third People, by Sadri Khiari 98
6. The Populism That Is Not to Be Found, by Jacques Rancière 112
Conclusion: Fragile Collectivities, Imagined Sovereignties, by Kevin Olson 118
Notes 144
Index 164

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